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" I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams. "

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" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

" In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends. "

" I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. "

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

" There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. "

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" Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. "

" You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? "

" Does one ever read a politician's books? "

" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly. "

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "

" Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. "

" Most of our writers tend to be recorders. "

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. "

" That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "

" I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. "

" I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. "

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "